ssh-add with ECDSA keys used to work in Xubuntu 12.04 for me, but 12.10 broken it.
It seems that before the ssh keyring was NOT managed by gnome keyring, but it is now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771272 Title: ssh-add does not handle ECDSA keys until ssh-agent exports are manually launched Status in GNOME keyring services: Confirmed Status in “gnome-keyring” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-keyring I'm not sure I have described it correctly in the summary, but this is what happens: I run ssh-add in a new terminal and enter my passphrase, which is the same for my DSA and ECDSA key: the DSA identity is added, but the ECDSA gets the "Error reading response length from authentication socket. Could not add identity: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_ecdsa" error. I run ssh-agent, copy and paste the output in the terminal and re-run ssh-add. Both identities are correctly added: ============================================================================ claudio@Chuck:~$ ssh-add Enter passphrase for /home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa: Identity added: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa) Error reading response length from authentication socket. Could not add identity: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_ecdsa claudio@Chuck:~$ ssh-agent SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-szGWMUbE3916/agent.3916; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=3917; export SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 3917; claudio@Chuck:~$ SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-szGWMUbE3916/agent.3916; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; claudio@Chuck:~$ SSH_AGENT_PID=3917; export SSH_AGENT_PID; claudio@Chuck:~$ echo Agent pid 3917; Agent pid 3917 claudio@Chuck:~$ ssh-add Enter passphrase for /home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa: Identity added: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa) Identity added: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_ecdsa (/home/claudio/.ssh/id_ecdsa) ============================================================================ Here is the content of my ~/.ssh/ claudio@Chuck:~$ ls -l .ssh total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 claudio claudio 726 2011-04-15 23:34 config -r-------- 1 claudio claudio 751 2011-04-05 10:35 id_dsa -rw-r--r-- 1 claudio claudio 603 2011-04-05 10:34 id_dsa.pub -r-------- 1 claudio claudio 444 2011-04-05 10:29 id_ecdsa -rw-r--r-- 1 claudio claudio 267 2011-04-05 10:23 id_ecdsa.pub -rw------- 1 claudio claudio 6402 2011-04-19 18:04 known_hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 claudio claudio 2760 2011-04-06 17:05 known_hosts.old ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.32.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Apr 26 16:27:02 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-keyring UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-03 (23 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-keyring/+bug/771272/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
